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Wonder if they will use some of the IP they've built up to move into the Mastodon Client space. While there is already a nice crop of Mastodon clients, it seems like there is no dominant 3rd party client yet.

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That is exactly what Tapbots has done with Ivory - Taking Tweetbot and using that as the basis for a Mastodon client. I've been using it for the past few weeks and it's fantastic https://tapbots.com/ivory

Honest question - I've been using Ivory for the past week but it doesn't seem to do anything that Metatext or the Mastodon app didn't already do. What's so fantastic about Ivory? I feel like I'm missing something because everyone speaks so highly of Ivory.

Thanks!

I haven’t used those apps, but I figure it doesn’t do anything those apps don’t do.

I just prefer Ivory’s UI. For me, it’s a nicer app to use.

In my case, I've got years worth of Tweetbot muscle memory. Using different clients is... a little rough right now.

> Metatext

I do like Metatext but development is paused (repo is archived) - and notifications appear to have stopped working. I'll probably end up back on Toot! at some point.

(Tried building my own version from the repo but it breaks for some reason and I'm not an iOS dev who can figure out why.)

I'll have a go at building it and if I'm successful I'll let you know. I honestly thought a proper fork would have started by now but that is not the case.

I think posting an "Unlisted" toot was one of them, though I could be wrong. I don't have the official app nor Ivory to check this.

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